Contracting-out welfare services
Subtitle: comparing national policy designs for unemployment assistance
By: edited by Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan
Series: Broadening perspectives in social policy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Madlen, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781119016496
Subjects: Social service; Contracting out; Public welfare; Unemployment; Public-private sector cooperation; Public administration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Other titles: Social policy & administration.
Description: "Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance is an edited collection focused on the design and re-design of welfare-to-work systems around the world"--
Notes: "Originally published as Volume 48, Issue 2 of Social Policy & Administration."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Contributors Introduction: Contracting-out Welfare Services- Comparing National Policy Designs for UnemploymentAssistance Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan 1 Worlds of Marketization - Employment Policies in Germany,Italy and the UK Compared Katharina Zimmermann, Patrizia Aurich, Paolo R. Graziano andVanesa Fuertes 2 Varieties of Market Competition in Public Employment Services- A Comparison of the Emergence and Evolution of the NewSystem in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium Ludo Struyven 3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting onNot-for-profit Organizations - An Australian Study Mark Considine, Siobhan O'Sullivan and Phuc Nguyen 4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation - A FrontlinePerspective Rik van Berkel 5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services -Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare Isabel Shutes and Rebecca Taylor 6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments,Same Old Problem James Rees, Adam Whitworth and Elle Carter 7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks -A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany's PublicEmployment Service Matthias Knuth 8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation - TheCase of Israel Avishai Benish Index .